theme in the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams is how the women are treated in their marriages and in society. The story focuses on two sisters‚ Blanch DuBois and Stella Kowalski and their relationship with each other and their respective partners; Mitch and Stanley. Blanche is the older sister of Stella‚ who was a high school English teacher in Laurel‚ Mississippi‚ before she was forced to leave her job. Around the age of thirty‚ Blanche is an already fragile woman who has come
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Williams uses two kinds of music‚ both of which create a feeling of apprehension and an ominous atmosphere. The ‘blue piano’ is symptomatic of misery and loss and appears at significant emotional moments in the play. For instance‚ when Blanche tells Stella about the loss of Belle Reve‚ ‘The music of the ‘blue piano’ grows louder.’ The melancholy sound of the piano reflects both Blanche and Stella’s feelings of loss and shock. The polka‚ on the other hand‚ can only be heard by Blanche and signifies key
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surrounds a marriage between Stanley and Stella Kowalski. The play begins to get interesting when Stella’s sister‚ Blanche‚ arrives from out of town. Blanche brings news that the family plantation back home is bankrupt. Stanley begins to question Blanche’s past and intentions with: “I got an acquaintance who deals with this sort of merchandise. I’ll have him in here to appraise it” (Williams 1828). This causes the first argument between the two when Stella replies “Don’t be such an idiot‚ Stanley”
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man to his wife Stella. Blanche is Stella’s sister who is perceived as rich and sophisticated with many dark secrets. Blanches performance differs on whom is around her. Blanche "is about 5 years older then Stella" who lost her job as a teacher and has no money. Blanche blames Stella for moving to New Orleans leaving her alone to attend to their relatives and grief to their losses. Blanche performance is hoping she will gain sympathy from other people especially her sister "Stella for leaving her
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sexual orientation caused him to commit suicide. Lonely‚ she becomes a prostitute‚ who loses her teaching career when her sexual relationship with a teenager is found out. After the family plantation Belle Reve is lost‚ she turns to her little sister Stella‚ who lives in with her husband Stanley in a poor area of New Orleans. She is a very deluded character; She hides her past and fragility behind her Southern aristocrat clothes and manners and is very harsh and mean to Stanley‚ calling him “bestial”
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Incorruptible The play‚ Incorruptible‚ is full of deceit‚ irony and just a little bit of morally wrong acts committed by Christian monks. The first act begins with Charles the head monk of the church is praying to the relics of the Saint Stella. A peasant woman is trying to sneak in a few prayers without paying the church a penny to pray. Martin‚ another monk of the church‚ and Charles are arguing because their church is not getting very many donations and not making very much money. Saint
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of a woman‚ an adolescent‚ and a child. Magda‚ only 15 months old‚ is accompanied by her teenage sister Stella‚ and her loving mother Rosa while living in a concentration camp during World War II. Rosa is unable to breast-feed her child‚ which makes Magda turn to the shawl in order to fulfill the maternal figure she’s missing; Rosa also suffers the loss of a child during this journey while Stella‚ the eldest daughter‚ becomes stronger and more voracious in order to subsist. The description of the setting
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Stanley Kowalski. <br><br>Blanche visits the home of her sister‚ Stella‚ in New Orleans and that is when Stanley started picking at her‚ almost testing her. Before she had met Stanley‚ she told her sister of how their plantation had been lost due to the costs of paying for the funerals of many family members. There was not enough money for her to keep the plantation. While Blanche bathed after her arrival‚ Stanley came home. Stella had told him what had happened and he immediately insisted that Blanche
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Blanche’s Misfortunate Desire The main character in a drama entitled "Street Car Named Desire"‚ written by Tennessee Williams‚ is an emotional woman by the name of Blanche‚ who has many afflictions. The setting of this play is in the state of Louisiana. Blanche has the potential to be a very vigorous woman‚ if she chooses to tap into that unidentified strength. All her life‚ she’s managed to face scrutiny from every possible direction. She has been ostracized from her community‚ lied to throughout
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level of the house. Later in the film I learn that Blanche DuBois leaves small town Mississippi and moves in with her sister Stella Kowalski in New Orleans. Stella lives in the lower level of the house which rooms are separated by curtains‚ owning bed mattresses that are as hard as a rock and light bulbs hung from the ceiling with no cover over them. Realizing that Stella is not wealthy at all. With many question in my head as to why the siblings are so different from each other I realized why.
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